Sunny Side Up

Something sweet happened in class yesterday, prefigured by seeing my breath in the clear sunny air of a crisp morning as I walked to the su...

In "Religion and Ecology" today I again got to share the surprising news that a river runs through our neighborhood - well, a cr...

Cabbage cluster...

Green sky (and an airplane)...

Fun(ny) thing about traveling until the eve of a semester. Where usually I'm busy the week before tweaking and rearranging my syllabi, ...

(Thank you, jetlag!)

Kicked off "Religion and Ecology" with a marvelous piece by Rebecca Solnit, a piece I thought would do many valuable things fo...

A new semester commences, and a busy one - I'm involved with four courses! But it's a little less than the University Course Cata...

Latest installment (#29!) of our newer, truer history of the New School!

It's good to be home - we were away almost a month! And what with bloviations about the new year and new decade, and the culture shock ...

At Pudong Airport, advertisements shared time with the Shanghai Expo's animation of the "Along the River in the Qingming Festiv...

We head back to NYC today after a satisfying little tour of Shanghai, Yangzhou, Nanjing. Revisited to the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art C...

The plane trees of Nanjing, especially those lining the avenue leading up 紫金山 Purple Mountain to the Sun Yat-Sent memorial, are amazing. An...

Escaped from the hustle and scale of Shanghai to the more manageable old city of Yangzhou a few hours' drive to the northwest.

This was a fun occasion, though Duke Kunshan University proved a little less cutting-edge than I'd idealistically imagined. I think of ...

The "Obsessed" photographs of Sun Yanchu, on show at the Shanghai Center for Photography, confirm why it's valuable to spe...

As ever spot-on, Tom Toles.

Familiar Shanghai murk - but a pretty spectacular view from our Airbnb!